AUKUS: Returning to de Gaulle or a Storm in a Teacup?
France’s anger at the US-UK-Australia (AUKUS) deal to build nuclear submarines in Australia is palpable but understandable, since Australia has reneged on a multi-billion-euro...
Talking Turkey With Greece: Turkey and Israel’s Marriage of Convenience
On January 25, Graeco-Turkish talks begin, at which Turkish claims to Greek island territories will be high on the agenda. Before we briefly consider...
Confusing Order in Order to Order
There is currently a great deal of speculation, some of it emotional and dramatic, by all manner of political theorists and international relations pundits...
Britain, Greece, Turkey and The Aegean: Does Anything Change?
Since at least 1955, the Aegean Sea has long been an area of contention between local powers Greece and Turkey on the one hand,...
The Greek Immigrant Crisis: Old Invasions, New Colours
For
hundreds of years, the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, protected
Western Europe by default from Arab and then Turkish Moslem invasions, although
the Jihadists...
Greece and Russia: Back to the Truman Doctrine?
Britain’s well-known keenness to keep Russia, and then the Soviet Union,
and now again just Russia, away from the Eastern Mediterranean is a
well-established fact of...